flights will be cancelled in the new york subway system shut town, and in fact amtrak is already kansasseling -- canceling trains. >> leigh glaser is checking on the weather. right now, league? >> leigh: let's look at live doppler 7hd along the outer banks of north carolina, getting slammed with very heavy rainfall. virginia beach getting hit with very heavy rainfall as well. wind gusts over 50 miles-per-hour. folks, hurricane sandy, a category 1 hurricane, moving parallel to the coast. winds up to 75 miles-per-hour so only a category 1. but let's look to the north of virginia beach, virginia, baltimore, philadelphia, new york city right now just getting those first bands of rain and, boy, it is just going to be a very difficult travel situation from the carolina coast all the way up towards new england in the next 12, 24, 36 hours. here's the actual storm track. this thing was parallel along the northern california -- the north carolina coastline now but out of the north but will start to turn more towards the northwest heading into tuesday. as it does, you can expect wind gusts over 75 mile